A new recycling technique could help tackle a major challenge: breaking down some of the toughest plastics without generating ...

The plastic is polyethylene, one of the most widely used plastics in the world. In laboratory experiments, the new process ...

Fluorescent semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) hold considerable promise for photonics. Furthermore, their optical characteristics can be improved by functionalization, which ...

Imagine this. You pick up a contact lens from its container and—yikes!—it falls on the bathroom floor. Before you know it, ...